I Am Thankful For
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The world and all its splendor where life begins
Human Beings of all and those who I call friends
America our diverse country and all that she defends
Nights and da...
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Categories:
front end, appreciation, beauty, life, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Jam Packed
...Traffic lights flash, but we're far from light
Heavy flow on streets, emotions flow tight
Horns blare a symphony, tempers blare too
We're all packed in, feeling blue
Drive me crazy, this gridlo...
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Categories:
front end, conflict, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Car Wreck Psychodrama
...My YouTube Russian car crash wreckophilia
comes from a bad head on in the family car
near rural Shreveport Louisiana in 1947
when I was a tyke whose favorite berth
was the stowage space behind t...
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Categories:
front end, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Vocabularist
...His use of English was exquisite
His vocabulary superb
He could use the mot juste
To make his thoughts reverb,
Tousled moppy hair above
A big bespectacled grin
The sort of warm personality
Th...
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Categories:
front end, friend, humor, inspiration, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Car Trouble
...My front end needs alignment and my rear end sags a lot
My vinyl seats get cold in fall; in summer they're too hot
Beneath the seats; old french fries, pennies, napkins, Laura Scudders
My fuel int...
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Categories:
front end, age, car,
Form: Rhyme
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 6
...John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon can I execute my commission?
Mitchell: Do you like to eat sushi?
Jo...
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Categories:
front end, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Curriculum Vitae
...She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band in a t...
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Categories:
front end, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Freeway Accidents Are Annoying
...so annoying
when a wreck happens
on the interstate
I always watch the semis
When they vie for the fast lane
I do too
Using their highway prowess
Except this time two were wrong
They led m...
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Categories:
front end, car,
Form: Free verse
Boy Dancer and His Orator Girlfriend--
...Boy dancer shudders at his reciting girlfriend,
He wants to leave but she wants the front end;
All his life he's dreamed to be a dancin' machine,
Two-foot spinning, twirling, whirling fiend ;
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Categories:
front end, 7th grade, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Dancin Nancy--
...The dancer shudders at the exciting girlfriend;
He wants to leave but she wants the front end;
As I look up into the skies I'm praying;
As I take up into the pitches I'm staying;
Whether tap...
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Categories:
front end, adventure, dance,
Form: Couplet
January '68 Chapter 2
...It was January '68
Chapter 2 – Phan Rang - 1st TDY
by Franklin Price
3/5/2019
Raking sand got old real soon
Was not why I came to war
My job was not for combat
The reason why I thought was m...
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Categories:
front end, conflict, war,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...Sitting down to write a poem with a blank slate at my hand,
I do not think of traveling or of some foreign land,
I never jot down happy thoughts of flowers and blue sky,
To think of all the good t...
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Categories:
front end, beauty,
Form: ABC
First Comes Ranger
...In the late 1800’s working a trade well-meant
I was considered different to my sorrow and detriment
I thought about changing, to reinvent
But, as “Ranger” (that’s me) I was content
I was a mortic...
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Categories:
front end, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dude Ranch Cowgirl
...She arrived from the big city
wearing a red ten-gallon hat,
and a denim stone-washed outfit
which topped off her shiny new
cowboy boots that were designed
by Tucson Sue.
This dude ranch cowg...
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Categories:
front end,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Most Dangerous Roads
...THE MOST DANGEROUS ROADS
i've got the head of a rattle snake
on the front end of my hood
i've got a chilled clorox drink
in my steel-knuckled hand
and we're rolling down I-10
across the stre...
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Categories:
front end, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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